No GMOs through the back door!

Genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­isms in my food, my gar­den, my field? Today, strict GMO reg­u­la­tions ensure that all genet­i­cal­ly mod­i­fied organ­isms are assessed for risks, labelled, and trace­able. Con­sumers, farm­ers, and breed­ers can rely on this to make informed choic­es about what they eat and grow.

This right to trans­paren­cy and free­dom of choice is under threat. The Euro­pean Union is plan­ning a major carve-out from its GMOs laws that would allow most plants engi­neered with new GM tech­niques – like the “gene scis­sors” CRISPR/Cas – to be mar­ket­ed with­out prop­er labelling, trace­abil­i­ty, or pri­or risk assess­ment. This would make it prac­ti­cal­ly impos­si­ble to pro­tect GMO-free agri­cul­ture and seed breed­ing.

Save Our Seeds fis call­ing on pol­i­cy­mak­ers to safe­guard GMO-free farm­ing and to sup­port the pro­tec­tion of organ­ic plant breed­ing. We reject patents on seeds.

Now that both the EU Par­lia­ment and the Coun­cil of Min­is­ters have posi­tioned them­selves on the Com­mis­sion’s pro­pos­al, the three EU insti­tu­tions are nego­ti­at­ing the final text of the leg­is­la­tion. Among them, only the Par­lia­ment has vot­ed for con­sumer labelling and trace­abil­i­ty of all genet­i­cal­ly engi­neered prod­ucts.

The Par­lia­ment must stand firm on its demand for GMO labelling and trace­abil­i­ty — it is the only way to ensure GMO-free farm­ing and seed breed­ing can con­tin­ue into the future.

Please use our email tool to send this demand direct­ly to your nation­al Mem­bers of the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment!